jjn:

..........is another anomoly?

Another anomaly (aka anomoly, a double one ) is I mentioned in my original post that if you use the time freeze delete option it doesn't just delete the time freeze you have your pointer on, it deletes all time freezes on a continuous clip. So, I tried splitting the clip to see if I could then delete individual time freezes and reduce the popping. When I tried that I got some strange behavior (an anomaly). Using The Sky is The Limit project I attached in an earlier post, go to the second time freeze and move the play head left 2 seconds. Before you split the clip, notice the picture in the frame you are on. Then split the clip. The time freeze moves to the play head and it is now 2 seconds long, not 5 seconds. Notice the picture in the new time freeze. It is not the picture that was there before you split the clip. The picture is from 5 seconds and 1 frame before the original time freeze. Undo that and try splitting the clip 3 seconds before the original time freeze. You get the same result except the new time freeze duration is 3 seconds rather than 2 seconds. To get a normal split of the clip the play head has to be moved 5 seconds plus one frame to the left of the original time freeze. If you change both time freezes to 3 seconds you will get the same result trying to split the clip before the second time freeze except the picture in the moved time freeze will be 3 seconds plus one frame from the original time freeze and you have to move the play head 3 seconds plus one frame before the original time freeze to get a normal split..